Events
- October 5 - The Ten Commandments opens in cinemas and becomes one of the most successful and popular movies of all time, currently ranking 5th on the list of all time moneymakers (when adjusted for inflation)
- February 5 - First showing of documentary films by the Free Cinema movement, at the National Film Theatre, London.
- August 4 - The last film serial, Blazing the Overland Trail from Columbia Pictures, is released.
- November 15 - Elvis Presley's first film, Love Me Tender, opens.
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“Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“At all events there is in Brooklyn
something that makes me feel at home.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)